Whole post is dogshit, but Lemmygrad is the only sizeable instance blocked on beehaw, so I can't help but assume this is mostly addressed about us:

Some of the instances that we have chosen to defederate with have explicit political stances and ideologies. Their political stance and ideology had nothing to do with the choice to defederate. The choice to defederate was based on the amount of hate speech present on the instance and/or explicitly endorsing it

Our admins ban all bigotry, and are extremely quick to ban them, so this is complete bullshit. In addition per @CriticalResist8 , they originally claimed that they blocked us because we were too active and filling up their disk space (spoiler: they were just incompetent, it was just log files they weren't deleting). I hate these smug, weaselly little liars dude :hasan-smash:

Also, the comments complaining about the lemmy devs again. Please, I beg you, switch to kbin you fucking losers. The devs never should have helped your bum asses out. They offer free hosting, put your server in reccomended (and in fact were only 1 of 2 in the recommended section for a long time!), basically bend over backwards to accommodate you and all you can think of is "muh evil tankies"

  • JuneFall [none/use name]
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    virtue signaling

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bartholomew_(journalist)

    Its origin and dunk on its popularizer

    Bartholomew trained as a banker in the City of London. He then moved into journalism with the Financial Times and the Far Eastern Economic Review, working in Hong Kong and Tokyo.[2]

    Returning to England on the Trans-Siberian Railway through communist China and the Soviet Union

    He is critical of the welfare state, which he regards as "dysfunctional".[3] His book The Welfare State We're In received the Institute of Economic Affairs' Arthur Seldon Award in 2005 and the Atlas Foundation’s Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award in 2007.[4]

    Bartholomew is credited with popularising the term "virtue signalling". Writing in The Spectator in April 2015

    He is the founder and Director of the Museum of Communist Terror.[1]

    In the 2019 European Parliament election, Bartholomew stood as a candidate for the Brexit Party (with picture)

    Books
    The Richest Man in the World: The Sultan of Brunei (1989)
    Yew & Non-Yew: Gardening for Horticultural Climbers (1996)